List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Tables XI
6. Problems and Perspectives of Postclassical Greek 1
7. Part I: Periodization and Greek Diachrony
8. How ‘Post’ is Postclassical? Lessons from the Augment throughout the History of Greek 13
9. Part II: Greek Dialects and Postclassical Greek
10. Dialect Convergence and Linguistic Change: The Dodona Tablets Corpus and its Significance for the Study of the History of the Greek Language 29
11. Part III: Homer and Hellenistic Greek
12. ‘Late’ Linguistic Innovations and Elimination of Hiatus in the Homeric Text 65
13. Notes on aemulatio in Hellenistic Epic: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Homeric Language 77
14. Part IV: Language Standardization
15. Atticist Views on Linguistic Variation: The Case of Phrynichus’ Eclogue and its Use of Ancient Sources 103
16. In the Mood? – Some Thoughts on the Use of the Optative in Postclassical Literary Greek 135
17. Part V: Historical Semantics
18. Postclassical ‘shame’: ἐντρέπομαι and ἐντροπή 157
19. Part VI: Morphosyntax and Biblical Greek
20. Negative Concord and Word Order in the Greek Bible and New Testament 187
21. Multiverb Constructions in Postclassical Greek: Pseudo-coordination and Participial Constructions in the Apophthegmata Patrum 225
22. Part VII: The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
23. Double Conjunction Usages in Postclassical Greek 271
24. Word Order in Byzantine Literary Greek 293
25. List of Contributors 309
26. Index Rerum 311
27. Index Verborum 313
28. Index Locorum 315